Are psychiatric hospitals affective or do more damage?
I would like some information about psychiatric hospitals. What goes on in them? Who is brought into one? But most importantly I would like to know if they are positively affective? Do they do more damage? What makes it different for each person? I mean does whether it is better for someone to be there depend on how they accept being there? If that makes sense. Any information about psychiatric hospitals and mental institutions would be greatly appreciated.
In my personal experience, psychiatric hospitals do more harm than good. You’re pretty much forced to take whatever meds they feel like you should be on (if you want any hope of ever being discharged) and then hold you until they feel you’re stable. There are too many patients for any real one-on-one therapy, so you spend most of your time in group sessions. Aside from that, you’ll maybe see a social worker and/or psychiatrist for a whopping 10 minutes each day, just so they can get a very brief idea of how you’re doing, though I don’t see how they could possibly tell that quickly. Then eventually you’re released with a prescription for whatever they put you on and a very traumatic experience under your belt. In my case, I went for extreme panic attacks (but they thought I was suicidal so they brought me there and put me under suicide watch). Once they realized I wasn’t suicidal, they let me go in a record 2 1/2 days, just in time for New Years Eve. Either way, they didn’t help me at all, and in fact made me worse from the trauma and the scary feeling of being in a psychiatric hospital. As soon as I got home I threw away the prescription for the antidepressants they put me on and was right back to square one. I wouldn’t recommend going unless you are a danger to yourself or others. In all other cases, outpatient is the way to go. If your problem is very severe, try to go more than once per week.
Well that’s really a broad question. I figure it COULD do damage on certain people, but for most people with psychiatric disorders, it can only help them. They can be effective in determining whether or not a person is safe on their own, if they need further evaluation, if they need to be under a doctor’s supervision and/or put on meds, etc.
Mental hospitals are not like what you might see in the movies… just like anything else. People are often put into psychiatric hospitals when it is determined that they are a threat to themselves and/or other people. They aren’t all "crazy" per se.
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In my personal experience, psychiatric hospitals do more harm than good. You’re pretty much forced to take whatever meds they feel like you should be on (if you want any hope of ever being discharged) and then hold you until they feel you’re stable. There are too many patients for any real one-on-one therapy, so you spend most of your time in group sessions. Aside from that, you’ll maybe see a social worker and/or psychiatrist for a whopping 10 minutes each day, just so they can get a very brief idea of how you’re doing, though I don’t see how they could possibly tell that quickly. Then eventually you’re released with a prescription for whatever they put you on and a very traumatic experience under your belt. In my case, I went for extreme panic attacks (but they thought I was suicidal so they brought me there and put me under suicide watch). Once they realized I wasn’t suicidal, they let me go in a record 2 1/2 days, just in time for New Years Eve. Either way, they didn’t help me at all, and in fact made me worse from the trauma and the scary feeling of being in a psychiatric hospital. As soon as I got home I threw away the prescription for the antidepressants they put me on and was right back to square one. I wouldn’t recommend going unless you are a danger to yourself or others. In all other cases, outpatient is the way to go. If your problem is very severe, try to go more than once per week.
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my own life
i think they are very damaging to people who are already fragile mentally.
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